To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
One by one, they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Dubliners by James Joyce
He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.
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Dubliners by James Joyce
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory.
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Ulysses by James Joyce